/lit/ - Literature

>>18044777
>feminists don't like sci-fi
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All jokes aside though, that review is trash, but what do you expect? It's Goodreads lmao. Do you expect good opinions on literature from a site like that? It makes /lit/ look like a premier academic journal in comparison

>>15901753
Planet of Exile - Ursula K. Le Guin, Hainish Cycle #2 (1966)

There was a single survivor of an advanced civilization stranded on a primitive planet in the first book. For the second, there's an entire lost colony that has been stranded for ~600 years. The book switches viewpoints between Rolery, a female of the Tevaran, one of the native humanoids, and Jakob, one of the Terrans. The Terrans have become very insular over the centuries, as shown by the statement that a certain woman was "his cousin ten times over, his sister-playmate-lover-companion." I felt that this book had a strong influence on some aspects of Game of Thrones. A quick search showed others thought similarly. The phrase "Winter was coming" is used, and is meant in the same way as in GOT because their winters are very long, nearly 15 years, and harsh. There were various other similarities. There are snowghouls, which play a rather minor role. I thought they were going to be snow zombies, but they were not-yeti. There's also a part where a character almost says "Life finds a way". Probably half the book is a (moderate spoiler) siege on the last remaining Terran city, Landin, by the not-Mongol hordes led by Kubben (not-Kublai) . This book was very different from the first in many ways though it had a similar set-up. The book began with a lot of imagery that I enjoyed. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed reading this. It could have been better in various ways, and after going to sleep and then awaking I saw this more clearly. A lot of the names seemed to slightly off from their real-world counterparts, but that's fine, and in some ways to be expected. There's a character named Jonkendy which immediately made me think of JFK and he's killed later on, so yeah, I don't know if that was meant to be a reference or not.


Rating: 4/5
This was originally rated 4.5 and rounded up to 5 on GR immediately after reading, but then changed to 4 now. As usual, these write-ups will be whatever I feel at the moment rather than anything serious of even pretend merit.